New motors wired up and all the other wiring plugged back in including radio gear:
12mm holes drilled in the Gimson Robotics wheels to allow them to sit a lot closer to the gearbox of a drill:
Tried to get a photo, but its so close its hard to see that there is even a shaft on the motor at all:
Waiting for the batteries to charge before I do anything else, so heres some photos I took earlier.
All kitted out (with the exception of the SBEC) and motors and wheels fitted:
Another photo attempting to show how close the wheels now fit to the drill motors and why they ned to be so close:
Bugger! Knew there was something I meant to do but completely forgot aboutOriginally Posted by Anttazz
Also, if you won't be needing an RX switch, could be worth moving the link into the middle. It is quite fiddly where it is, as well as being close to the front wheel. Up to you though
Haha not to worry man, I just plugged in the link (that you also forgot) earlier and could hear the batteries slowly dying.
It is quite tough to get the link in even with all of the shell off so I might well move it eventually. Going to get it going properly first and then tackle other problems like that.
I found a video of it from Jamie's old channel, only one I could find though there may be more. Not sure if it was very broken or if Jamie's dad was driving
Would've been my dad driving, if you can call it that! Back when it was Bullseye.
It always seemed to work fine on the bench, but he could never get it to go in a straight line. Was underweight and underpowered too, so not exactly a contender by any stretch of the imagination. It has since had a new chassis and the diagonal wheels will make it a little more controllable (well, as controllable as you can get with bang-bang control)
Right, had to dismantle the front pod of Cicatrix to get a set of reverse screws to hold the wheels on Rover, but thats done, batteries charged and first test run filmed:
My old man heard the noise and came over to see what was happening, hes not too happy with the way its left the carpet
Why was it never that nippy when I had it?!
No idea man. With the shell on it was a bit slower, but thats possibly because the batteries had just about died again. It started going crazy shortly after the filming stopped on that last video, and on this video it ploughed into the wall and started smashing my cars parcel shelf up before I flipped it over (editted out)
I'm uploading the final video of my 1 day build diary now, but I forgot to put the camera off and filmed a lot of carpet before realising so have trimmed it down, but Final Cut has made the file huge and so its taking a while.
About to conclude my 24hr build diary with the finished article, then back to more important things i.e. Cicatrix new pod.
One other thing, my team mate recently purchased one of the shells Tom was selling on his sale thread so hopefully we'll see him contributing to this build thread and competing with his robot in the near future.
But for now, completed Rover with shell back on. Only a short video as the batteries don't last long at all plus all the chaos it caused as described above
Looking good
The batteries are only 1Ah drill ones so won't last ages generally, but because that drive setup is almost akin to 4WD there will be resistance when turning. Add in the fact that it's running on carpet and the tyres are really grippy, and it'll probably be pulling a lot out of the packs. Once the batts are cycled a few times too they should last longer.
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